As a US immigrant from Soviet Ukraine, watching  Tucker Carlson interview Vladimir Putin was a surreal clash of worlds. My impressions of the two men, the Ukraine-Russia War, The West, and America’s future were…unexpected. I think you’ll love this deep, bittersweet, and sometimes funny episode.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• 00:00:05 The Navalny Prelude


• 00:01:55 Curb Your Anti-Tuckerism, Media


• 00:03:41 Russian Man vs American Boy


• 00:09:43 Professor Putin’s Ukrainian History 101


• 00:14:04 A Strange Clash of Capitalist vs Socialist Knowledge


• 00:17:08 Are We The Baddies? (Part 1)


• 00:22:35 A Utopia Without the “Severe Disease” of War?


• 00:26:46 Poking Russia, Sabotaging Ukraine


• 00:34:23 “De-Nazification” & Strange Bedfellows


• 00:38:40 American Tourists


• 00:41:14 Are We The Baddies? (Part 2 – Resisting Sunrise)


• 00:46:16 Do US Leaders Matter?


• 00:47:52 Rethinking Americanism, Militarism & The West


• 00:51:37 Outtake: Sweet, Sexy Skepticism

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